Back when Oswald was earning an undergraduate degree at the Art Institute of Chicago, they started hallucinating that trees and cicadas were sending them secret messages.

Source: https://www.minnpost.com/mental-health-addiction/2023/05/living-beyond-diagnoses-uma-oswald-aims-for-a-life-in-recovery-from-mental-illness/

His quest for answers led him to a religious institute at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Source: https://www.highlandernews.org/87195/artist-spotlight-nolberto-rezola-uses-art-to-elevate-himself-toward-a-higher-purpose/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=artist-spotlight-nolberto-rezola-uses-art-to-elevate-himself-toward-a-higher-purpose

The contributions Marilynn Alsdorf made to the Art Institute after her husband’s death created the couple’s namesake galleries, a curator’s position at the museum and a professorship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/art-institute-chicago-nepal-artifacts-repatriation